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Pueraria Decoction

Geongal-tang

한글 건갈탕 · Pinyin Gan Ge Tang

乾葛湯

Composition 構成

Galgeun Ge Gen
葛根 갈근 · Kudzu Root

4 g
Chief 君

乾葛
Jigak Zhi Qiao
枳殼 지각 · Bitter Orange

4 g
Deputy 臣
Banha Ban Xia
半夏 반하 · Pinellia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Jeokbokryeong Chi Fu Ling
赤茯苓 적복령 · Poria (red)

4 g
Deputy 臣
Saengjihwang Sheng Di Huang
生地黃 생지황 · Raw Rehmannia

4 g
Deputy 臣
Haengin Xing Ren
杏仁 행인 · Apricot Kernel

4 g
Deputy 臣
Hwanggeum Huang Qin
黃芩 황금 · Scutellaria

2 g
Deputy 臣

條芩, 5 pun
Saenggang Sheng Jiang
生薑 생강 · Fresh Ginger

6 g
Envoy 使

3 slices
Gamcho Gan Cao
甘草 감초 · Licorice

2 g
Envoy 使

5 pun
Heukdu Hei Dou
黑豆 흑두 · Black Soybean

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Envoy 使

100 black soybeans
Baengmae Bai Mei
白梅 백매 · Salted Mume Plum

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Envoy 使

one salted plum

Total 34 g per packet (첩) · representative dosage — verify against source texts. Excludes 2 ingredients measured by count or used as a vehicle, shown as —.

Received this formula from your practitioner? Amounts shown here are classical reference values — granule and prepared products differ. Always follow your prescribed dosage and directions.

Actions 效能

Treats wine pile

Indications 主治

Pattern-based

Wine pile — piles aggravated by drink

Biomedical correlates

Haemorrhoids aggravated by alcohol

Source text 原文

Donguibogam 東醫寶鑑

治酒痔. 乾葛ㆍ枳殼ㆍ半夏ㆍ赤茯苓ㆍ生地黃ㆍ杏仁各一錢, 條芩ㆍ甘草各五分. 右剉, 作一貼, 黑豆百粒, 薑三片, 白梅一箇, 同煎服. 《入門》

Translation

Treats wine pile. Dried pueraria, bitter orange, pinellia, red poria, fresh rehmannia and apricot kernel 1 don each; sliced scutellaria and licorice 5 pun each. Cut up, make one packet, decoct with a hundred black soybeans, 3 slices of ginger and one salted plum. — Uihak Immun 入門 (Donguibogam · Huieum)

Clinical commentary 臨床

Pueraria is the tradition's medicinal for wine, and 2.12 says the wine pile bleeds whenever the patient drinks. The hundred black soybeans are there to resolve the toxin of it. — Eui Young (Justin) Chung, L.Ac., Dipl. O.M.